Empty Small Towns In North Dakota - Cross Country Road Trip / Enchanted Highway & Closed Downtowns
Small Towns in North Dakota
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today's adventure will be all about
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north dakota
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i'm going to be going through the state
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beginning here in bowman
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indy short for north dakota going where
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the wind blows where the arrow flies if
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you will
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gonna complete the entire state in one
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day all of the back roads no interstates
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no freeways
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just across the plains
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as a recording of this wednesday june
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22nd 2022. welcome everyone adam the woo
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here fighting high caffeinated beverage
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also i try to hit as many
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small towns
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where the vibe is just like this today
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as possible
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as always i'm inviting you to join me
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oh i think i just splashed up on my nose
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i got a little bit on my nose
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shall you i really appreciate these
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little quaint communities and i'm always
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on the lookout
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for a nice marquee
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from a theater like this one
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especially with the light bulbs up here
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this is a relic of the past
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kind of reminds me
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a little bit of
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the lights at disneyland with the red
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and the white
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there's also crystal bar not a crystal
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ball but a crystal
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bar
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this structure on the corner is dated
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back to 1908 when it was built
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the dakota western bank
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a very peaceful and beautiful morning
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the weather is great
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you touch his bootery
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udich's bootery utt ech
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apostrophe s bootery
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now it's been a little while since i
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broke the map out the atlas out given a
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general layout of the land just to show
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kind of where i'm going to be going i'm
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going to start over here
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where i am in bowman and then i'm just
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going to jaunt across
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you know go up to regent mott
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cross through flasher
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and then just cross this way
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just straight eastward
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lower
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section of the state eastward across the
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lower section
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of north dakota
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this cafe building is awesome
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you still see where it says cafe up
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there on the side of the wall side of
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the brick
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i am standing exactly in the middle of
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the street here in scranton
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i do not have to worry about any traffic
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though
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the road is completely closed off due to
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some construction
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next to
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rod's trustworthy hardware and sharon's
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beauty supply right here
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the main roost
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probably a pub of some sort right there
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next to the main bar
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main bar and grill
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this is main street
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small little pizza place there next door
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called next door pizza
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and in front of the community center is
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this bell
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not a lot of traffic
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this direction
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there's nothing bumper to bumper about
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this big the foot
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not rush hour
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hello cows
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hello
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cow
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pulling into the town of regent now
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zip code five eight six
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five zero
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get in there oh this is awesome
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this grocery store still has the co-op
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sign up top there
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and a nice coca-cola
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classic signage there just kind of
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waving in the breeze
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oh nice little
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little relic of the past painted on
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those bricks
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dakota made flower
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feeds and cereals
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also evidently there's a place called
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the enchanted highway is a gift shop
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over there or maybe i'm on the enchanted
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highway
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got some buffalo right there
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looks like there's a woman in the in a
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bathtub up top
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yeah the enchanted highway
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they have a gift shop right downtown
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the small little downtown area i was
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just at is
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that direction but if you pull
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up to this cul-de-sac
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take a look
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at
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this
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what in the name of heck this is awesome
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there's the regent water tower
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there's a knight and a dragon
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whoa
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you just never know what you're gonna
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find kind of out in the middle of
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nowhere
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good thing that knight has a shield see
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from this angle you can see
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a fire breathing dragon
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it's no match for the night this had to
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been quite an undertaking to build this
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has the teeth up there the wings
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even the very lengthy tail
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around back
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enchanted castle ec for short
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there is a castle right here
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look at this there's even a drawbridge
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into the castle
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a couple other people are
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kind of pulling up getting some photos
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of the hotel
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tavern
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and dining
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there's two pieces of wood one with a
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dragon in the night
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oh
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yes it really is a hotel
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the enchanted castle hotel
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there are rooms in here
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how cool
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if i wasn't trying to cover a lot of
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ground and hadn't already had a place
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last night and had to go through the
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entire state today might have to return
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one of these days
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it'd be pretty fun to stay here
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oh what is what
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i don't know what that's used for wave
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to open hold on
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i'll just push it to open
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all right that is something this place
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is a
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sight to behold
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right here just outside the outskirts
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there's the water tower take a look at
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this siren right here
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a lot of horns all right i'm on to what
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they are referring to as the enchanted
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highway now
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someone on a tractor over here crossing
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the bridge
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and there are more sculptures down this
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way i am hearing
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see what i can find down the enchanted
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i love this oh yeah
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look at these
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there's a farmer
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a pitchfork
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even a little picnic area over here
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gonna have a picnic it's a good place to
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have one
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and evidently there are a lot more of
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those sculptures
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that were designed but going a different
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direction the way i'm heading
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i am now about to turn into the town of
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mott m-o-t-t
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i can see it right over there oh wow
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there's a lot of there's a lot of bells
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right there
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in front of this house there's like two
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bell towers
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towers with bells on them here in the
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downtown section
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there is a motts
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rexall store over there
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and next to the first national bank is a
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pedal tractor museum i don't know if
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i've ever seen a pedal tractor museum
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in my days before does not appear as if
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they are open
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i really love
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these these pieces of americana
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look at this this is awesome
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just the architecture of the building
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with these little blocks down here
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making up the
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you know you got the brick here but then
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you got these glass
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blocks see that a lot
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and old architecture
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and on the side of this law office
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building
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mott pioneer park this is mural
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a guy with his horses
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plow in the field
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windmill
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got the birds chirping here in this
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little park
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another mural on the side of this
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the hotel brown used to stand here
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but was destroyed by fire
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so in its place
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there is this gazebo down at the end
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and over there is a couple of deer
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not real deer they're just fake deer but
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very beautiful little park here where
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the hotel used to be on to another town
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or in this case city the city of
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new leipzig
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welcomes me
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and not every city has skyscrapers and
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big buildings
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this city just a quaint little downtown
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it's a retro looking schlitz sign right
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there
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also the four
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i don't know the star grocery right next
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door got the silos off in the distance
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there a do it best hardware store or
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once was
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since closed up and a maytag
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place
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they'll see too many maytag places next
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to maytag
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was or might still be
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a laundromat
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and just off
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the main downtown area
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is not noah's ark but noah's
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park
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very clever
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got the animals going 2x2 through the
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now approaching the town of
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elgin
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e-l-g-i-n
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they have a main street as well
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according to this sign
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the grant county newspaper sits next to
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the library
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i love that image of the computer
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like a desktop computer on the sign from
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and across the way here is the farmer
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state bank
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right there on the right there is no
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traffic light through here also the
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water tower off in the distance
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but where i thought a stop sign should
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be just says
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residents need to dump grounds will be
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coming up weather permitting
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right here in the middle of the road i
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guess that's where they put their
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town
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announcements right here in the middle
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of the road
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can't miss it
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carson evidently is home of the 1983
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miss rodeo america
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there's also an eagle on their welcome
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sign and
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a very large cowboy
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tall cowboy here
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getting some fuel here
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i'm not really sure why
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why this machine is beeping like this
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but filling it up four dollars and
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64 cents a gallon
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that truck over there has a lot of
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pallets on it
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also picked up a little road trip snack
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there original recipe
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last couple times i tried to get these
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they only had the cheese flavor but
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finally
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got the original recipe also had to go
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around
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a series of lakes
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over down here and there was no bridge
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taking the back roads or taking the
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highway so i had to go up
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and around so i had to go up to the
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interstate and now i'm going to dip back
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down
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and stay on route here so i had to go
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around go way up kind of out of the way
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to get around
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this water system
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here because there were no bridges
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back on track there is the
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hazelton water tower
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just for a little bit
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about to connect back up with the
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pavement momentarily
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and now
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for the hidden church
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a church building
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hidden
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amongst farm equipment
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there's a church back there
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amongst the farm equipment
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why is that back there
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and why is it hidden
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these are the questions
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that i have this is wishik w-i-s-h-e-k
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water towers one there from this
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direction
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and there will be another looking back
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the other
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pizza cafe and a bar here with a little
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budweiser faded outside
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and looking back the other way
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is that an osh gosh
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the gosh
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painting on the side of that building i
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think it is
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it certainly is
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next to this insurance agency
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above the air conditioner unit
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and moved on about another half hour or
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so yeah give or take about another half
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hour
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the smallest city in the usa
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situated in two counties
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learn
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this is off off the side of the road
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here in lamour
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oh i didn't even notice there's a boat
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underneath that awning too
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here in la moore
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passing through
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a little more
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that is a lot of round bales i saw a few
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round bales a ways back
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i'm trying to think i've ever seen a
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field that has this many round bales
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through it
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it's got to be like a thousand round
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bales out there
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i know that seems like an exaggeration
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but there's probably a thousand round
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bales in this field
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city of lisbon
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has a leg lamp
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all right i drove a little further
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to the state line
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and about to check into
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some accommodations for the evening
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it's been a long day
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tomorrow
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into another state
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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is that
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a footprint or a tire
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track
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the vlog i'm confused
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is over